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Toward Solving the Housing Crisis: The DADA Approach

Too many experts and politicians offer simplistic solutions to the housing crisis, mostly framed by their own specific interests.

DADA has no interest other than a very genuine need to see every person in safe, affordable well designed housing that develops supportive, diverse and sustainable communities.

DADA believes a multi pronged strategy is needed and should include, but is not limited to, the following ideas:

  1. Removal of negative gearing concession on more than one investment property. According to Crikey, 63% of federal politicians own more than one property and 37% own three or more.
  2. Outlaw money laundering through real estate by implementing tranche 2 reforms so that lawyers, accountants and real estate professionals need to actually know their customers identity and where their money actually comes from.

https://www.austrac.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-07/sa-brief-real-estate_0.pdf

https://www.corrs.com.au/insights/aml-and-ctf-gatekeeper-reform-what-could-tranche-2-reforms-look-like-in-australia

  1. Place restrictions on the short term rental market specifically on the rental of whole houses and apartments. Spain and other countries have done this to alleviate the housing shortage.
  2. Institute significant fines for those who landbank empty properties. Ensure all fines go to the public housing building fund.
  3. Stop giving public land to developers for a measly 10% increase in public housing. Public assets should never be sold or worse, given to private operators.
  4. Build more public housing targeted specifically to those at highest risk of homelessness for example, women over 55, youth, those with disabilities, new migrants.
  5. Fix rents to alleviate rental stress as a cause of homelessness.
  6. Improve planning laws to include affirmative requirements for the type of housing needed to best address the needs of those at risk and the community generally.
  7. Improve planning laws to ensure good quality housing for all.
  8. Reinstate qualified government building inspectors and building surveyors to ensure better quality and safer homes.
  9. Implement an emergency rental fund drawing funds from taxing short term rentals.

(Photo: Migrant Mother:Florence Owens Thompson by Dorothea Lange/Library of Congress)

2023 Australian Livability Survey

 

The link below is to a survey on the livability of you neighbourhood.  See how it scores against the average.

https://survey.placescore.org/s3/lc23-fb-sm?campaign=Melbourne&fbclid=IwAR3fESu2px3CJm-pDr8DRScylNkyisK5W1yNYLnGblAtlHzl2XLUMKfEZn8_aem_th_ARLwgeDWREBfPPU0cyhAd0EwBPZ7bdgUngLVfe9ZGa3aYxrXkIUMS2cUHsWEv9GkZixlbCqHpZVQi-cZuZiUiJ9X

Save The Preston Market Campaign Update: 21 June 2021

SAVE THE PRESTON MARKET CAMPAIGN UPDATE

A big thank you to all of those folk who signed the Darebin Council petition to save Preston Market from overdevelopment.

You can still sign, if you haven’t yet, here: http://chng.it/jQRGZdr6Kv

The Victorian Planning Authority (VPA) has released the draft structure plan for the market and is calling for feedback to be submitted before July 13th 2021.

We want to encourage everyone to tell the VPA how phenomenally disappointing their recommendations are for such a important site.

Key documents can be accessed via this link: https://vpa.vic.gov.au/project/preston/

Some points to help guide a submission are;

  • It is an over development.
  • It is an excessive number of dwellings
  • The proposed height of the residential towers on the site is excessive
  • Mostly 1 & 2 BDR flats, creating a demographic with a lack of diversity and failing to meet the future housing need in Darebin
  • This plan is ‘developer driven’ not ‘demand driven’, being to max out the site with insufficient consideration for future community need
  • The suggested heritage overlay does not guarantee the current market will not be demolished
  • There is not enough protection of the significant and recognized heritage features of the market
  • The 20 storey proposed on Murray Rd does not satisfy ESD standards(Environmentally Sustainable Design) as other buildings including the market will be overshadowed from northerly solar access during trading hours.
  • Open space is also negatively impacted
  • Ask the Minister for Planning to keep the footprint of the market as is
  • Ask the Minister to respect the heritage; the intactness of the fabric
  • Ask the Minister to restrict height of new buildings near the market buildings
  • Ask the Minister to remove the site from the fast track list
  • Ask the Minister to proceed with the public acquisition of the site

We reject what has been proposed by the VPA as it is ill conceived and does not adequately reflect the community expectations for the protection of the market and the future development of the site.

Registering your support for the future of the market on a single page or many pages will help.

Thank you.

 

Victorian Planning Authority release their recommendations for Preston Market

Below are the documents released by the VPA today, the 18th of May 2021.

We urge you to participate in the consultation process.

Preston_Market_Precinct_-_Development_Contributions_Plan_Draft_to_be_finalised_consultation_May_2021

Preston_Market_Precinct_-_draft_Structure_Plan_consultation_May_2021

Preston_Market_Precinct_-_Draft_Structure_Plan_-_Community_brochure_web_version_-_14_May_2021_

Preston_Market_Incorporated_Plan_consultation_May_2021

DADA Works for the Darebin Community, Not for Darebin councillors.

We are aware some Darebin councillors believe that DADA has been unduly influenced by other Darebin councillors.  DADA rejects this assertion.
DADA has in the past, and will continue in the future, to meet with and work alongside any and all Darebin councillors who are willing to listen to our concerns and represent them at Darebin council.
DADA works for the Darebin community, not for Darebin councillors.